Great Cheaper Health Food Hunt

thecraftybear

Hi,
To the lady who would like to buy fresh but her and hubby wouldn't get through it all:
You could buy fresh veg and freeze the bit that would otherwise get wasted??

Blagalot

These are cheap for bulk herbs:

http://redmoor.net/index.php?cPath=100_103&osCsid=b6623026cfccf3653e8f8ac852330156

Also sell seeds, dried fruit, nuts, grains & spices.

surfsister

Rabbitx wrote: »

Hi, thanks everyone for all the wonderful information on this site. We have a local food coop, set up and run by it's members. It sets up stalls on alternate Saturdays in a local hall. and offers affordable health food. There may be one near you. Ours is the Ipswich Ripple Food Cooperative, it has a web-site and I'm sure it's members would be happy to offer advice to anyone wishing to start their own.:easter:


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thanks a lot useful post!

pensioner_margaret

I found this website about kefir very useful
http://users.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html
Pages and pages of good info
Even cheese making without rennet
I have been making kefir for a year now and make cream cheese now and again.

Raw_Foodie

Sprouting seeds is the cheapest (and probably healthiest) food that I can think of. It's also very simple to do: Fill a jam jar up to one quarter with seeds and soak in water overnight (chickpeas, lentils). Mung beans and wheat grains need about 24 hours' worth of soaking. After that, rinse seeds twice a day until they sprout. Chickpeas and rye grains sprout very, very quickly.

Then I chop up whatever fruit I can lay hands on, and perhaps some sunflower seeds or nuts, and toss it all together with the sprouts as a salad.

Some sprouts also taste quite nice on their own or with just a squirt of lemon juice.

I also make my own houmous from raw sprouted chickpeas - tastes quite different from the stuff from the shops - fresher... I've also turned sprouted puy lentils and mung beans into pastes with the food processor. They also freeze well.

Here's more about sprouting:
http://www.primalseeds.org/sprouting.htm

And I also put the houmous recipe on my own website:
http://www.myfoodadventures.co.nr/

The dried seeds are probably cheapest from the Asian shops in the 2 kg bags but you may prefer organic seeds. But even with that extra expense, it's still very cheap food.

Angelina-M

I love sprouting seeds. I mill my own flour so always have plenty of wheat on hand. I grow the wheat grass for a couple days and then just grab a bit out and chomp on it when I walk past.

I dont have a juicer that will juice wheat so I have to eat the whole thing in the early days otherwise it gets stringy.

Wheatgrass is the buzz drink at the moment and I see the stands with whole boxes of wheatgrass looking like carpets and think to myself how much money they must be making as its so cheap to grow your own.

I use an old tupperware plastic steamer. Its sort of a sieve bit with a bowl underneath and a clear plastic lid. Its perfect for sprouting seeds and cost me 20p from a charity shop!

brownfrog

sue-y wrote: »

Sometimes frozen or tinned produce are at brilliant value and the freezing/canning process preserves the nutritional value.
Although Delia backs canned meat I'm not so sure, but if I see a good offer on I might be tempted .

Frozen food is high in nutritional value (in fact, usually far better than supermarket 'fresh' food, which may have been stored for months and then displayed under fluorescent lights), but canning usually destroys anything that can be damaged by heat. However, it avoids the need for artificial preservatives and it's very good for foods where the main nutritional value is protein (such as meat and pulses), and the heating often make the proteins easier to digest.

Rabbitx

Here's another link which maybe helpful...
2) Suma - "Suma is a flourishing workers co-operative with an equal pay for
all policy.
Suma has a wide range of own branded foods as well as stocking and
distributing other brands.
Suma is primarily a trade wholesaler but may supply direct to the public or
food groups if there are no Suma stockists in the area."

They have over 7000 'green'products eg Ecover,Fairtrade coffee etc raand
sell them at one third less than supermarkets. There is a minimum value
order, which varies from area to area, so you may have to club together with
someone. If you're interested you ring them and ask for a brochure.

http://www.suma.co.uk/homepage.html

HarrowITutor

Hello, I'm a newbie here but I was interested in the comments about Kefir and, in researching it, came across this website:

http://www.torontoadvisors.com/Kefir/kefir-list.php

for which the blurb says: "International Kefir community members happily share their grains. A good idea is to request information and grains from members who are located close to you, but even distant members will be glad to ship their grains across borders. Once you have extra grains, please sign up and share your baby"

There's three people in London alone willing to share Kefir grains for the price of P&P - to me this sounds a pretty good idea! :j

princess_h

me and my guy are just bout to start healthy eating and lidi are really good for cheap healthy food!! yum yum!! im looking into dried fruits to snack on so will check out all the websites you guys have suggested!! cheers guys!!!